Athlete Archive

Rawson was an outstanding athlete, a successful coach and a founding father of wrestling in Saskatchewan. Donald was a member of the University of Toronto Wrestling Team from 1922 to 1928. During this period, he won the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Read more →

A member of the Regina YMCA Wrestling Club and the Olympic Boxing and Wrestling Club, Vern Pettigrew wrestled his way to five Canadian Amateur Wrestling Championships in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1939 and 1940. Vernon was a member of the Canadian Read more →

At 13 years of age, Terry Paice was a silver medal winner in the Provincial Men’s Open Wrestling Championships, the beginning of a long list of accomplishments. In 1972, he won the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) gold medal for Read more →

Ron began wrestling as a high school student in Kitchener. In 1976, Ron became Ontario wrestling champion in his weight division. This was to be the first of 13 consecutive provincial championships in three different provinces (Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan). Read more →

While living in Saskatchewan, Earl established a standard of wrestling achievement that may never be equalled. McCready was the Canadian Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1926, 1927, 1928, and 1930, the United States National AAU Heavyweight Champion in 1930, and British Read more →

Dan Matheson was Canadian Heavyweight Wrestling Champion in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1931. In 1919, Dan was instrumental in organizing the Regina YMCA Boxing and Wrestling Club. By 1922, he was club president and worked towards developing the sport in Read more →

Between 1954 and 1967, Ray Lougheed won Saskatchewan championships in the lightweight and welterweight categories ten times. Ray won six Canadian titles between 1956 and 1965 (four freestyle and two Greco Roman). Ray was also the Western Canada Lightweight Champion Read more →

Garvie was born into an athletic family, as the son of Violet and fellow Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Clarence Garvie. Early interests were hockey, baseball, football and track and field. Besides instruction from his dad, he benefited from Read more →

Butch Donison, the youngest of the Donison brothers, was born near Avonlea, Saskatchewan. His career as a wrestler spanned fifteen years during which time he compiled an outstanding record. Donison was the first Canadian wrestler to have competed in every Read more →

Lee Donison is the eldest of the wrestling Donison brothers and was raised near Avonlea, Saskatchewan. Although better known as a boxer, he was also an outstanding wrestler. He won the Provincial Heavyweight wrestling championship four consecutive years between 1953 Read more →

Born in the Avonlea District of Saskatchewan in 1932, Danny Donison had an outstanding career in the sport of wrestling, both as an athlete and as a builder. Donison began wrestling in 1950 at the old YMCA in Regina, under Read more →

From 1962 to 1974, Clint Ward held a combined eight Canadian titles in Men’s Slalom, Senior Men’s Slalom, Senior Men’s Tricks, and Senior Men’s Overall. In 1968, he was the Canadian record holder for slalom. Mr. Ward was also a Read more →

Elmer Hazzard began water skiing in 1960. By 1970, he won the Regina Beach Open Trick Skiing event and the Stoney Lake Senior Men’s overall title. The following year he won three trick events, the Saskatchewan Open, the Stoney Lake Read more →

Jim Clunie grew up on the Prairies, but he soared to new heights on the water. From Saskatchewan to sites around the world, he leaped to international acclaim in the sport of water skiing. Clunie was first introduced to the Read more →

Volleyball took Joyce Gamborg (nee Senyk) from Melville to Saskatoon. Then, it took her around the world. After graduating from Melville Comprehensive High School in 1978, Gamborg joined the University of Saskatchewan Huskiettes women’s volleyball team later that fall. As Read more →